Improvement in fastenings for wearing apparel



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Fastenings for Wearing-Apparel.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

ROBERT C. NICHOLS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IIN. FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 164,200, dated June 8,1875; application led May 11, i875.

To all whom it may concern Y Be it known that I, ROBERT C. NICHOLS, ofBoston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented an Improved Fastening for Wearing Apparel, &o., of which thefollowing is a specification:

This fastening is designed for attachment by sewing with thread togarments and other objects made of flexible material, in cases whereconsiderable strain calls for large holdin g-surfacc in order todistribute the stress and the holding and securing thread-stitches overample area.

In the drawing, the improved fastening is shown in Figure l in faceelevation, as sewed to a waistband of a skirt or other clothing, inreadiness to be connected to a shoulder-strap harness, for the purposeof transferring weight Where it is most easily borne with the leastinjurious effect. Fig. 2 shows, in perspective, the improved fasteningas caught into a link of a pair of braces or suspenders and Fig. 3 showsan edge view of the fastening attached to the waistband of a pair ofdrawers, and caught upon the waistband of a pair of trowsers.

The fastening is preferably made by a stamping and punching operationwith suitable dies from sheet metal, the hooked part being afterA wardbent to the curves desired. Said bent part is marked a in the drawing,and is integral with the flat part b, which is lightened by removal ofits center, so that a flat ring is formed, which is pierced with manyholes, through which the thread and needle is passed in the act ofsewing the hook to any textile Or other suitableA-exible material likefurs, leather, &c. The inner and outer edges of the ring are raisedabove the surface pierced with thread-holes, so as to protect the threadfrom wear by chafrng.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, the fastening shown anddescribed, consisting of the hooked part combined with the flat ringpierced with thread-holes, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specilication in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT C. NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

J. B. CROSBY, L. H. LATIMER.

